Australian Sports Injury Data Dictionary
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SportSafe Australian Sports Injury Data Dictionary Guidelines for injury data collection and classification for the prevention and control of injury in sport and recreation. Working Document 1 Acknowledgments This working document of the Sports Injury Data Dictionary was prepared by the Australian Sports Injury Data Working Party, with support from the Australian Sports Injury Prevention Taskforce and Active Australia. In 1996-98 the Australian Sports Injury Data Working Party comprised the following members: Chair: Dr Caroline Finch (Deakin University) Members: Assoc Prof James Harrison (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and Flinders University) Ms Donna Harvey (Australian Sports Commission) Mr Ron Burns (Confederation of Australian Sport) Ms Jenny Williams (Sports Medicine Australia - SA Branch) About the Working Party The ASID Working Party is a national group including representatives from the fields of epidemiology, statistics, database management/computing, injury surveillance, sports administration, both male and female sports participants, sports medicine professionals. It also has links with major national health and sport data collections, such as the National Injury Surveillance Unit, Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Active Australia Monitoring Group. Wide consultation has taken place in the development of the data dictionary, which has included a one day workshop, a session at the Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport 1997, working meetings and valuable comments and input from Dr David Chalmers, Alex Donaldson, Dr John Orchard, Dr Willem van Mechelen, Dr David Janda, Qld, SA and WA Branches of Sports Medicine Australia. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...........................................................................................................................................2 TABLE 1: SUMMARY TABLE OF DATA ITEMS AND SOURCE ....................................................................................4 INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................................5 ADMINISTRATION ITEMS ......................................................................................................................................8 Person recording case information.................................................................................................................8 Immediate source of injury record..................................................................................................................8 Date of injury ..................................................................................................................................................9 Time of injury ..................................................................................................................................................9 Date of Injury Record......................................................................................................................................9 DEMOGRAPHICS .................................................................................................................................................10 Age ................................................................................................................................................................10 Gender...........................................................................................................................................................10 Area of usual residence.................................................................................................................................10 PLACE OF INJURY OCCURRENCE..........................................................................................................................11 Name of injury place - text ............................................................................................................................11 Place of Injury - Type....................................................................................................................................11 Sport and Recreation places- Specific ..........................................................................................................12 Part of Specific Injury Place .........................................................................................................................14 ACTIVITY WHEN INJURED ...................................................................................................................................15 Activity when injured: broad areas...............................................................................................................15 Activity when injured - Name of sport or activity.........................................................................................16 Phase or aspect of involvement in activity or event ......................................................................................18 Activity when injured: grade or level............................................................................................................18 INJURY FACTORS ................................................................................................................................................19 Equipment used with intent to protect against injury....................................................................................21 MECHANISM OF INJURY ......................................................................................................................................22 Narrative of mechanism of injury..................................................................................................................23 INJURY SITE........................................................................................................................................................25 Body Region and Body Chart........................................................................................................................25 Specific Structure Injured..............................................................................................................................26 NATURE OF INJURY - PATHOLOGY ......................................................................................................................28 Provisional Diagnosis...................................................................................................................................30 Diagnosis Text...............................................................................................................................................30 TREATMENT FACTORS........................................................................................................................................31 Date of presentation......................................................................................................................................31 Time of presentation for treatment................................................................................................................31 Reason for presentation ................................................................................................................................32 Treatment ......................................................................................................................................................33 Advice given to injured person......................................................................................................................34 Referral .........................................................................................................................................................34 Treating Person.............................................................................................................................................35 REFERENCES ..................................................................................................................................................36 APPENDICES...................................................................................................................................................37 Appendix A: Orchard Sports Injury Classification System (OSICS).............................................................37 Appendix B - Sports injury definitions ..........................................................................................................44 Appendix C - Injury severity definitions........................................................................................................45 Appendix D - Major Injury Factors NDS-IS v2c...........................................................................................46 Appendix E - Examples of Sport Specific Data Collection Forms ................................................................50 3 Table 1: Summary table of data items and source Data Item Data Source/s Core or Recommended Item Administration Items Person recording case information ASIPWP Strongly recommended Immediate source of injury record ASIDWP Strongly recommended Date of injury NDSIS v2.1 Core Time of injury NDSIS v2.1 Recommended Date of injury record NDSIS v2.1 Demographics Age NDSIS v2.1 Core Gender NDSIS v2.1 Core Area of usual residence NDSIS v2.1 Strongly recommended Place of Injury Occurrence Name of injury place - text ASIDWP Strongly recommended Place